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The methodology of positive economics : reflections on the Milton Friedman legacy /

Milton Friedman's 1953 essay 'The methodology of positive economics' remains the most cited, influential, and controversial piece of methodological writing in twentieth-century economics. Since its appearance, the essay has shaped the image of economics as a scientific discipline, bot...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mäki, Uskali
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The methodology of positive economics (1953) / Milton Friedman
  • Reading the methodological essay in twentieth-century economics: map of multiple perspectives / Uskali Mäki
  • Early drafts of Friedman's methodology essay / J. Daniel Hammond
  • Unrealistic assumptions and unnecessary confusions: rereading and rewriting F53 as a realist statement / Uskali Mäki
  • The influence of Friedman's methodological essay / Tom Mayer
  • Did Milton Friedman's positive methodology license the formalist revolution? / D. Wade Hands
  • Appraisal of evidence in economic methodology / Melvin W. Reder
  • The politics of positivism: disinterested predictions from interested agents / David Teira Serrano and Jesús Zamora Bonilla
  • Friedman's 1953 essay and the marginalist controversy / Roger E. Backhouse
  • Friedman (1953) and the theory of the firm / Oliver E. Williamson
  • Friedman's selection argument revisited / Jack Vromen
  • Expected utility and Friedman's risky methodology / Chris Starmer
  • Milton Friedman's stance: the methodology of causal realism / Kevin D. Hoover
  • On the right side for the wrong reason: Friedman on the Marshall-Walras divide / Michel De Vroey
  • The debate over F53 after fifty years / Mark Blaug
  • Final word / Milton Friedman.